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Gordian Knot

Public water
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The citizen is excluded from any choice. Democracy is not putting a cross on the symbol of a coalition every five years. Democracy is participation. In theory, it also exists in Italy. The referendum is a form of participation, as are the popular initiative laws. Both, however, only at a nominal level. The signatures end up in the basements of the Senate and they stay there forever. The referenda are boycotted or their outcome is even ignored, as in the case of nuclear.
The Soviet Constitution was, on paper, the best in the world. Its application however depended on the wish of Stalin and of the gerontocracy that followed him. Power to the people and the people in the gulags. Italy is a modern gulag, with voiceless inhabitants, without rights. A pressure cooker with (on top of the lid) a class of people exploiting it down to the ground, down to the last clod of earth, of tree, of river, of air, of energy. In Italy what is taking place in a very obvious way is a new class war. On the one hand there’s the class of citizens, on the other hand the "spaghetti power", where everything is intertwined: the concessionaires of the Confindustria, the public contractors, a part of the clergy, the Freemasons, the parties, organised crime, the wayward services of the State, the banking system, information. It’s an orgy. If you pull on just a single strand of spaghetti, you disturb a ball of wool that cannot be untangled, a Gordian knot.
The citizen has only one possibility, to put on his helmet, to make himself the State and to retake his life with concrete direct actions, without the politicians as intermediaries. We are people, not merchandise. Let’s start with what belongs to us from birth, with water.
1. Water is the principal source of life and it belongs to everyone
2. Water is a human and social right
3. Water cannot be the source of profit
In the Statute of your towns get the following text inserted: "In observance of the law, the ownership of the infrastructure and the network of the integrated water network is public and inalienable. The city is committed to guaranteeing that the management of the integrated water system is carried out exclusively by bodies that are entirely public.".
The town council can do this at the request of the citizens in a spontaneous way or by means of a popular initiative resolution as happened in Turin with the initiative of the Public Water Committee that collected 12,000 signatures
They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.

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Beppe maybe you still have not seen this...

but last night here in uk there was a documentary of one hour about our dear psiconano... every british family has seen this...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r8g99

not even one newspaper in italy have reported this...

this is what people in the world think about Italy and our 'course'.

Please write something about it.

Posted by: alex martin | March 18, 2010 09:57 PM


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